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Datasman said: Comments,Datasman,"...no mention was made of staff moving to Chrome OS, Google's own operating system that is due to launch in the second half of the year."
Maybe, but that's what they will do, come Chrome's launch date.

Datasman said: Comments,Datasman,I've always wondered what otherwise fills the minds of people who pick up on such trivia; it really is of little importance whether someone writes 'Internet' or 'internet'. What matters - at least to me, and I suspect 99.9% of the readership - is the substance of what's written, and not the minutiae.
As for 'hacking' or 'cracking' I have it on the very best authority that 'hack' is indeed the right word in this context.
Getting it right might be something some others should attend to before coming over all pompous about nothing.

sirjohng said: Comments,sirjohng,With the general level of English used in this forum, I am surprised that anyone bothers with spelling and grammar at all, we rapidly seem to be decending towards grunts. Having regard to the piece above, I would happily go over to Linux if it was one operating system. I have tried 3 versions and they are all quite different in looks and operation. One worked fine but the other two had issues with my hardware and, of course, favoured windows software packages do not work at all.

Matt Egan - PC Advisor said: Comments,Matt Egan - PC Advisor,Okay, this could quickly get tiresome, so here is my final word on this particular subject: all those words are proper nouns and so are correctly spelt out in capital letters. It's our contention, and has been for the seven years or so I've worked at PC Advisor, that 'internet' is now sufficiently part of our language to not require a capital 'I'. You disagree, and that's fine, but it's not a mistake, just our house style.

Matt Egan - PC Advisor said: Comments,Matt Egan - PC Advisor,No 'Internet' on PC Advisor, John, any more than we'd refer to the 'Sea' or the 'Sky'. Question of house style, I'm afraid.

John Smith said: Comments,John Smith,Could somebody tell me what this "internet" is? I know what the Internet is, but I haven't the foggiest on what an "internet" is.
And the Chinese guys didn't hack, they cracked. Get it right!

John Scott said: Comments,John Scott,I heard a while back that those China Google people were using Windows XP? Hardly the most secure version of Windows. If Google was so concerned about security I question their motives.